{"componentChunkName":"component---common-build-question-tags-template-js","path":"/question-tag/brain/4","result":{"data":{"allQuestion":{"edges":[{"node":{"id":"Question_10644-markdown","title":"Curious what HelloMD docs think about NFL and their dismissal of player's using marijuana for medical conditions?","slug":"curious-what-hellomd-docs-think-about-nfl-and-their-dismissal-of-players-using-marijuana-for-medical-conditions","content":"\"There is so much media on NFL and how they penalize players if they're caught using weed. It seems they would rather have them addicted to opiates. What do you guys think about their stance? Also, there is all the talk about traumatic brain injury from repeated concussions and whether marijuana helps the players with that. I think NFL players are a national treasure and should be treated well and be allowed to use their weed if they want.\"\n_____________________\nFrankly I think it's ridiculous. More and more players are admitted to using cannabis to help with the pain and inflammation that their bodies take on the field. it seems that the NFL would rather have their players addicted to opioids then use cannabis. Since there is a possibility it can also help to decrease the chance of brain injury from concussions, it should be allowed. Here are some palyers who have spoken up.\n\nFormer NFL running back Ricky Williams says he believes marijuana has medical benefits and can help ease the physical pain that comes with playing the game of football. It seems they would rather have their players addicted to opioids.\n\nWilliams tested positive for marijuana multiple times during his NFL career. He said that the workload took a toll on his body, and seemed to indicate that the league did little to help him with that. So he admitted that he turned to marijuana.\n\nBefore that he said the doctors he would go to gave him prescriptions for narcotics and anti-inflammatories and tell him to \"be tough\". \n\nFormer Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon reportedly called medical marijuana a “godsend,” and credited it with helping him kick an addiction to painkillers.\n\nMcMahon, 56, led the Bears to the Super Bowl XX crown in 1985, but he’s dealt with serious memory issues, headaches, and other issues since walking away from the game. In 2012, he was reportedly diagnosed with dementia.\n\nMcMahon applied for a medical marijuana card in Arizona and told the Chicago Tribune that he’s been using the drug since then and smokes three times a day.\n\n“This medical marijuana has been a godsend. It relieves me of the pain -- or thinking about it, anyway,\" he told the Tribune.\n\nHe believes the number of NFL players who use marijuana has grown significantly. He's not alone. \n\nCurrent players say marijuana use in the sport is extensive, with many using the drug to deal with the ramifications of head trauma. One player said in an interview he believes smoking marijuana helped prevent him from attempting suicide. \n\nAnimal studies have found that CBD has a neuroprotective effect on brain cells. When CBD was administered to pigs with brain injuries, CBD brought electrical activity close to normal levels and reduced amounts of stress on the brain. Mice who were administered CBD had fewer brain cells die from brain injury, when compared to mice that didn't have CBD.\n\nWake up NFL!\n\nPerry Solomon, MD","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_10575-markdown","title":"My dad was just diagnosed with a large brain tumor. ","slug":"my-dad-was-just-diagnosed-with-a-large-brain-tumor","content":"\"It's aggressive and moving fast, and we're all terrified. I have started looking for wholistic therapies, hyperthermia, with success for people w/ Stage VI brain tumor (most likely a glioblastoma). Should we be using cannabis? \"\n_____________________\nI’m very sorry to hear about your dad’s tumor and I can understand why you are terrified. Let me try to give you a little information about cannabis and cancer.\n\nCancer is a disease caused by abnormal cells dividing uncontrollably and invading healthy cells.\nThere are hundreds of different types of cancer. Cancer is not necessarily one disease and treatment methods between different cancer types often vary. However, there are a few aspects where cannabis can commonly treat most cancer symptoms.\nThere have been several case studies and anecdotal evidence that cannabis helps minimize or eliminate tumors in cancer patients.\n\nPreclinical studies of cannabinoids have shown the following:\n•\tStudies in mice and rats show that cannabinoids may inhibit tumor growth by causing cell death, blocking cell growth and blocking the development of blood vessels needed by tumors to grow.\n•\tLaboratory and animal studies have shown that cannabinoids may kill cancer cells while managing to protect normal cells.\n•\tA study in mice showed that cannabis may have potential to reduce the risk of colon cancer and/or treat the disease by protecting against inflammation in the colon.\n•\tA lab study of delta-9-THC in liver cancer cells showed that it damaged/killed the cancer cells. It was also shown to have anti-tumor effects by acting on molecules also found in lung cancer and breast cancer cells.\n\nIn 2009, researchers at Complutense University in Spain found that THC induced the death of brain cancer cells in a process known as autophagy. Researchers found that administering THC to mice with human tumors initiated autophagy and caused the growth of the tumors to decrease. Two human patients with highly aggressive brain tumors who received intracranial administration of THC also showed similar signs of autophagy. The team behind the study, Complutense University and the University of Anglia in the UK, have discovered previously unknown signaling platforms that allow THC to shrink tumors. While these facts are interesting, we seem to be a long way off fully understanding these antitumor effects.\n\nMany people believe CBD rich oils to be cancer fighting but in fact THC is the component of cannabis that has been studied for its anti-tumor effects. That being said, CBD may also have anti-tumor properties and certainly it mitigates some of the undesirable effects of THC, possibly allowing one to then use higher doses of THC.\n\nI hope this information is helpful for you and your family.\n\n\ndrbluto","image":null}},{"node":{"id":"Question_10566-markdown","title":"How does cannabis help the brain with combat related ptsd?","slug":"how-does-cannabis-help-the-brain-with-combat-related-ptsd","content":"\n_____________________\nHmmm complicated answer but, in short, PTSD results from a dysfunctional endocannabinoid system.\n\nTo understand the neurobiological mechanisms of PTSD, scientists analyzed 46 subjects, half of whom had PTSD and half who did not. Researchers found that people with PTSD had lower blood levels of anandamide, a cannabis-like compound that we produce in our bodies. \n\nIn all mammals, anandamide triggers the same brain receptors that are activated by THC. The cannabinoid receptor, CB1, found in our brain and central nervous system is involved in emotional learning, stress adaptation and fear extinction. Researchers have found that normal CB1 receptor signaling deactivates traumatic memories and allows us to …… forget. \n\nLow levels of anandamide affects CB1 signaling and results in impaired fear extinction, aversive memory consolidation and chronic anxiety, all seen in patients with PTSD.\n\nCannabis activates these CB1 receptors.\n\n\ndrbluto","image":null}}]}},"pageContext":{"limit":12,"skip":36,"numPages":4,"currentPage":4,"id":5011,"name":"Brain","slug":"brain","country":"US"}},"staticQueryHashes":["3949754563","4179947113","4202924991"]}